The goal of the program is to organize the images based on the date they were taken on. I got everything to work but moving is giving me a lot of issues. when I move it, it always works for the firs 2 image files and then starts giving the error message: "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process." on the rest of them and I have tried a lot of different ways of moving it and it always moves the first two and doesn't work for the rest. What am I doing wrong?
Here is the code I use for the mover:
// Moves each image file to its respective folder based on the date of creation
private static void moveImages(String mainPath, String[] fileDates, String[] fileNames)
{
// Loops through moving each file in the array that contains the dates of each file
for(int i = 0; i < fileDates.length; i++)
{
String fromFile = mainPath + "\\" + fileNames[i];
String toFile = mainPath + "\\" + directoryName(fileDates[i]) + "\\" + fileNames[i];
Path source = Paths.get(fromFile);
Path target = Paths.get(toFile);
try
{
Files.move(source, target, StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);
System.out.println("File " + fileNames[i] + " moved successfully");
}
catch (IOException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Edit:
The main method I used for this code is this:
public static void main(String[] args)
{
//Stores the path name input by the user for future reference
String mainPath = userInput();
//Creates an instance of the data that is collected from the images in the mainPath
GetData data = new GetData();
//Creates a reference to the collection of the names of all the images in the mainPath
String[] names = data.getNames(mainPath);
//Creates a reference to the collection of the dates of all the images in the mainPath
String[] dates = data.getDates(mainPath, names);
//Create a unique directory for each date extracted from images if it doesn't already exist
createDirectory(mainPath, dates);
// Move each image to its respectful directory depending on its creation date
moveImages(mainPath, dates, names);
// Lets the user know the program is done running
System.out.println("End of program");
}
and the error it prints out is the following:
java.nio.file.FileSystemException: C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\try\IMG_7100.CR2 -> C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\try\Jul 28, 2019\IMG_7100.CR2: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.translateToIOException(Unknown Source)
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.rethrowAsIOException(Unknown Source)
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.WindowsFileCopy.move(Unknown Source)
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.WindowsFileSystemProvider.move(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.move(Unknown Source)
at Organize.moveImages(Organize.java:149)
at Organize.main(Organize.java:29)